(Discussion Topic) Color of Good and Evil

Yes I choose today's topic based on color's that surround gaming. Really though if you think about it you might just be one of many you don't like changes in color. Well today if you read on maybe you will enter a discussion to make you think outside the normal.

Since I have been playing games there has been a set colors for good and a set colors for evil. Now I don't know about you, but Red for Evil is starting to get boring. Using Blue for good is getting that way to after I played infamous. There are so many games out that that use these colors for that reason.

Do we as gamers really accept that Evil always has to be red or some other dark color? Why can't Evil be yellow or neon green? Good can be other colors like neon purple or even plaid in my own thoughts.

So my question to you is if you were given the choice to make good & evil colors what would they be and why? Now you can't use blue for a good color or red as a bad color either. I really want you to put thought into this.

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David Matos

August 25, 2009

Damn, when I saw the topic I thought it was going to be on Godd/Evil topics which would be fun to discuss since I reject such terms (Good, Evil, Right, Wrong), a Nietzsche-ish view that focuses about consequences.

In this topic, I think red is used not to say Evil=Red, but that in most games you play as a "good guy" and therefore all hostile things are in red. Red=Hostility and not evil I think. Blue is also used in this case in a lot of things.

Halo 3 (and other shooters I can't name off the top of my head)-red and blue teams
Pepsi-red and blue
politics-red and blue

I guess those colours just can't get along with each other.

You can't use Neon Pink or Yellow to denote hostility, since we don't associate those colours with that. I don't know why we have that natural schema to put red with hostility but we do.

So its not a case of "evil" but just the mechanics of the game, whatever you need to shoot/attack will be in red.

Toby Davis

@David if you could change the color of Hostillity what would you change it to?

Pete Davison

Archon had yellow pieces for Light and navy blue pieces for Dark. Still light and dark colours, of course, but not traditional black and white or the currently-fashionable blue and red.

These colours have associations that are grounded in society. Red=stop, danger, hostility, emergency, warning. Blue is often considered a "calming" colour. It's the colour of a clear sky and the water. Red is the colour of fire, blood, lava.

These are just social constructs that spring immediately to mind though. You could equally say that red is the colour of cherries, strawberries, lipstick, Dorothy's shoes. Blue could be the colour of ice, of a dead person's lips, of poison. It's all to do with context. It's just so many people use the same context for these colours that we're accustomed to it now!

@Toby- I don't think I would. Aren't there studies that look at how colours affect peoples disposition? Dark greens and blues naturally calm people while colours like red and ornage excite.

If it ain't broken, don't fix it. Plus Red is my favorite colour ;D

Lance Darnell

Toby, I love that you choose red for evil and blue for good. Why? Because in TF2 I always play as Blue, and go up against the red!

I do this because red is easier to see than blue. I know this sounds silly, but when you are playing a spy you want the extra concealment that a more darkened color gives.

Red is evil because it is the color of blood and also because they don't care about sticking out - just like evil people!!!

@David - I like that you mentioned him, for Nietzsche was one evil bastard! ;)

I think he would have choose read in TF2!!!

@Pete - In the Wizard of Oz book, not the film, Dorothy's shoes are actually silver....

Silver..... the true color of pure evil!!!! ;D

@Lance_ I reread my comment and I worded it weird. I am actually a big fan of Nietzche since he also rejects such notions of morality.

So he CAN'T be evil, since he doesn't believe in evil. Also, he is awesome.

Spies are evil!

@David - My Nietzsche comment was a complete joke..... hence the wink in my comment... ;)

And everything is subjective....

Spies are most definitely evil.. But if Nietzsche played the spy in TF2, would he then be evil>? :o

@Lance-A "Joke"? What is that?

"Spies are most definitely evil.. But if Nietzsche played the spy in TF2, would he then be evil>?"

My brain hurts.....

@David - I like that you mentioned him, for Nietzsche was one evil bastard!

Its too early for this!

@Lance-Wait now I'm confused. I was being sarcastic there.

@David in order for lance to function you need to put a :P or other emonic smilie for him to understand before noon :)

Yeah!!! I am going to make a coffee now.

@David - I am not responding to anymore of your comments until you write a blog of your own ;)

>:(:'(:(:P:):D;D - This is my morning in happy face talk!

@Lance I thought it went like this:

>:(;):o:(;D>:(8):'(:P;D

@Toby-oooooooh ok

@Lance-Blog? What's that? :P (See what I did there? I used an emoticon! :D)

Interwebs, ALWAYS stays on topic. I'll get around to writing a blog...eventually.

@David - I am eagerly awaiting it....

@Toby - It needs more crying faces
:D

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